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Overview

Tedra A. Walden is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on various areas within psychology, particularly concerning clinical and developmental aspects.

The main fields of study associated with their work include:

  • Psychology

Subfields addressed by their publications cover:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

Key research topics covered in their work are:

  • Stuttering Research and Treatment
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Human Health and Disease

Their recent papers include:

  • A parent-report scale of behavioral inhibition: Validation and application to preschool-age children who do and do not stutter (2020), Journal of Fluency Disorders
  • A Preliminary Study of Speech Rhythm Differences as Markers of Stuttering Persistence in Preschool-Age Children (2023), Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Better working memory for non-social targets in infant siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2020), UNC Libraries
  • Autonomic nervous system activity of preschool-age children who stutter (2020), UNC Libraries
  • A study of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and stuttering persistence (2023), Journal of Communication Disorders

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tedra A. Walden include:

  • Edward G. Conture
  • Robin M. Jones
  • Stephen W. Porges
  • Katerina Ntourou
  • Elizabeth Oyler DeFranco

Their work has been published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Fluency Disorders
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Journal of Communication Disorders

Best Publications

  • The development of social referencing.

    Tedra A. Walden;Tamra A. Ogan

  • Production and discrimination of facial expressions by preschool children.

    Tiffany M. Field;Tedra A. Walden

  • Relation of emotional reactivity and regulation to childhood stuttering

    Jan Karrass;Tedra A. Walden;Edward G. Conture;Corrin G. Graham

  • Predicting social impairment and ASD diagnosis in younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder

    Paul Yoder;Wendy L. Stone;Tedra Walden;Elizabeth Malesa

  • Discrimination of facial expressions by preschool children.

    Tedra A. Walden;Tiffany M. Field

  • Effects of Different Attentional Cues on Responding to Joint Attention in Younger Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Alison G. Presmanes;Tedra A. Walden;Wendy L. Stone;Paul J. Yoder

  • The effect of context and age on social referencing.

    Tedra A. Walden;Abigail Baxter

  • Early Social-Communicative and Cognitive Development of Younger Siblings of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Wendy L. Stone;Caitlin R. McMahon;Paul J. Yoder;Tedra A. Walden

  • Dual Diathesis-Stressor Model of Emotional and Linguistic Contributions to Developmental Stuttering

    Tedra A. Walden;Carl B. Frankel;Anthony P. Buhr;Anthony P. Buhr;Kia N. Johnson;Kia N. Johnson

  • Infant social referencing

    Tedra A. Walden

  • How I feel: a self-report measure of emotional arousal and regulation for children.

    Tedra A. Walden;Vicki S. Harris;Thomas F. Catron

  • Understanding Feelings and Coping with Emotional Situations: A Comparison of Maltreated and Nonmaltreated Preschoolers

    Maureen Smith;Tedra Walden

  • Speech disfluencies of preschool-age children who do and do not stutter

    Victoria Tumanova;Edward G. Conture;E. Warren Lambert;Tedra A. Walden

  • Production and perception of facial expressions in infancy and early childhood.

    Tiffany M. Field;Tedra A. Walden

  • Emotional reactivity and regulation in preschool-age children who stutter.

    Katerina Ntourou;Edward G. Conture;Tedra A. Walden

  • Emotional Reactivity, Regulation and Childhood Stuttering: A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study.

    Hayley S. Arnold;Edward G. Conture;Alexandra P.F. Key;Tedra Walden

  • Temperament, speech and language: an overview.

    Edward G. Conture;Ellen M. Kelly;Tedra A. Walden

  • Reaction to background stimulation of preschool children who do and do not stutter.

    Krista A. Schwenk;Edward G. Conture;Tedra A. Walden

  • Communication-Emotional Model of Stuttering

    Edward G. Conture;Tedra A. Walden;Hayley S. Arnold;Corrin G. Graham

  • Spontaneous Regulation of Emotions in Preschool Children Who Stutter: Preliminary Findings.

    Kia N. Johnson;Tedra A. Walden;Edward G. Conture;Jan Karrass

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward G. Conture
Edward G. Conture Vanderbilt University
Wendy L. Stone
Wendy L. Stone University of Washington
Tiffany Field
Tiffany Field University of Miami
Stephen W. Porges
Stephen W. Porges Indiana University
Donelson R. Forsyth
Donelson R. Forsyth University of Richmond
Craig T. Ramey
Craig T. Ramey Virginia Tech
Zachary Warren
Zachary Warren Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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